How to make a Cottage Garden Style Arrangement

We have fallen in love with the English, or Cottage, Garden floral styling Cottage Garden designs are inspired by early English Gardens where families grew practical items such as produce, herbs, flowers, and fruit trees for use in their day-to-day lives.

There is no exact recipe for an arrangement of this style but they are usually crafted from lush foliage, assorted blooms, and spiky florals, that can all be harvested during the same season. The Cottage Garden style often has an oval or round structure; and is designed to look loose and natural rather than styled and contrived. 

These are our steps for creating a beautiful Garden Style Arrangement using one of our DIY flower kits that is delivered directly to your door! 

Sharp clippers or scissors and a vase or unique container for display.

Step 1:

When your flowers arrive at your door, open them up right away, recycle any packaging materials, and help them hydrate by trimming 1 to 2 inches off the stem and placing them in fresh water. 

Step 2:

While the blooms are recovering from their journey, this is a good time to find the container you want to display your arrangement in. We suggest finding a vase with a wide mouth so the stems are not so crowded and have space to flourish!  

Step 3:

We recommend starting with the greens. Begin by placing them, one by one, in the vase being sure to crisscross the stems. This gives your other flowers a good base structure to build from, you will be happy you did! Keep a few of your green stems for the final touches.

Step 4:

Next begin to place your roses, they have nice stiff stems that also help with keeping the design sturdy. Placing them in different directions and trimming them to different heights helps create the wild Garden Style that we’re aiming for. 

Step 5:

Now we get to see the arrangement come to life by adding the “filler” flowers. These might sound less important than the “focal” flowers but they are just as fun and impact the look and feel of a design! 

Begin inserting your solomios, spray roses, alstroemeria, veronica, and other lush stems, into the crisscross web that you built with your greens and rose stems. Remember the Garden Style is natural and wild so trimming some stems short and leaving some long is ideal! We love to include tall, spire stems like delphinium, larkspur, and stock to add height to the wild design.

Step 6:

Let’s add in the final touches! Now that the base structure is firm we can begin to place the more delicate stems like ranunculus, anemones, and scabiosa. Tuck some in between your other blooms and leave some long and arching out to dance in the wind. This makes a huge impact and everyone will be quite impressed.

Step 7:
Round up any greens and fillers and wrap up the design. That’s it. You’ve created your Garden Style Arrangement. We are betting the results are beautiful!